noun, feminine/ˈɡɾjeta/plural: grietas
crack, chink, crevice; chap (cleft in the skin)
“[…] en la estancia contigua, un rayo luminoso del mundo superior se filtra a través de una grieta de la roca[…].” — In the adjacent room, a luminous ray from the world above is filtered through a crack of the stone.
Inherited from Old Spanish crieta, from Vulgar Latin *crepta, from Latin crepita, passive participle of crepō (“to crack”).